refuse to accept the status quo. the status quo of this miserable ugly politics we have today, guarantees we'll continue to do the same. guarantees it. we can't do it and we can do it without ever compromising on our principles. i know how the labor leaders movement has moved for decades. that's how we're going to win in 2020. and we're going to win together when we defeat donald trump. [ applause ] i've never been more optimistic about america's future, and i mean it. you know, there's a -- excuse me for quoting an irish poet, my colleagues always kid me. he wrote a poem about the suppression of catholics in ireland. he wrote a poem and he said, we're taught never to hope on